I started this blog on my birthday, one year ago, with a goal to maintain it for a year. It’s been fun. I have no plans to stop. Thanks for looking at it. I hope it’s been fun for you, too.
Here are some stats for the year:
Total views: 5,214
Posts: 64
Pages: 33
Comments: 160
Categories: 114
Here are my “views per month.” This made a nice arc, but I can’t figure out how to copy the image out of my stats page, and I’m too lazy to make a new one for you. The obvious main variable was how often I posted:
October 282
November 244
December 161
January 230
February 212
March 516
April 564
May 721
June 760
July 696
August 509
September 199
Here are my most popular posts and pages–everything that got 20 hits or more–with convenient links to them.
The Five Rabbit Holes of Abstinence Diet 62
Nathen 62
Photographs 60
Learning 58
On Breaking Down in Portland and My Dad 47
Ballet and Lingering Homophobia 41
Nathen’s Miraculous Escape #38 40
Four Lists about Relationships 38
July 4 37
Stress Cues 34
Final Stretch, Fall Term 2008 33
Blogs 31
Stepping Stone Has Changed Me 29
Worms, Ducklings, Life, Death 27
Viewing 27
Weather Makes People Talk Funny 25
Some Things That Make Me Joyfu 25
Reading 24
Swimming Lessons for Akira Zap Talaba 23
Cell Phone Etiquette and Ethics 21
Seattle Balboa Festival 2009 20
Goals and Intentions for Year 37, Plus Outcomes 20
Here’s a list of things that had people searched when they found NME. I find these amusing:
nathen’s miraculous escape 12
nathens miraculous escape 9
nathensmiraculousescape 7
kyla wetherell 7
david waingarten 6
nathen\’s miraculous escape 6
Obnocto 5
nathen’s miraculous escapte 4
poppe “social psychology” matthijs or m. 4
nathen miraculous escape 3
abstinence diet 3
nbtsc 3
nathen lester miraculous 2
nathen’s big escapte 2
grace llewellyn kyla 2
ethan mitchell Vermont 2
this is now waingarten 2
my psycology journal 2
not back to school camp grace Llewellyn 2
kid and grandpa 2
nbtsc 2009 2
seluga, university of Oregon 2
college party 2
my baby duck was born with its guts out 2
taber shadburne 2
psycholinguistics empathy 2
“naomi uyama” 2
“tilke elkins” 2
\”damian lester\” 2
72 year longitudinal study in the new yo 2
kyla weatherell 2
locus of control illusionary control 2
\”damian lester\”\”joshua tree\” 1
ducklings crossing in ca i5 yesterday ma 1
nathen + kyla 1
ann murdy 1
highly sensitive person 1
reanna under 1
http://www.bugs schags.com 1
karyn gal 38 on facebook 1
\”damian lester\”\”abandon ship\” 1
african wildflowers 1
awake!! abandon your sleep of illusion 1
baby ducks grate 1
idiomorphs in psycholinguistics 1
ethan mitchell food sensitivity 1
vangie seagull 1
Nathen's Miraculous Escape 
October 14, 2009 at 8:49 am
Happy blog-o-versary!
It’s fun seeing and reading you whenever I want.
P.S. To get the image of your stats page take a screen shot. I don’t know how to do that on a PC, but I’m sure it can be googled easily.
Wait, here it is:
http://www.wikihow.com/Take-a-Screenshot-in-Microsoft-Windows
October 15, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Thanks, Jeannie, and thanks for the pushing me to start a blog in the first place.
October 15, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Yeah, you and blogs is a no-brainer!